Showing posts with label Latvia. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 15, 2009

My Son Exclaimed, 'The Aliens are Coming!'

Mysterious Columns of Light Over Sigulda
Beam me up: Scientists left baffled as mysterious columns of coloured light appear in the night skies

By The Daily Mail
1-15-09

     These stunning images [at source] show mysterious columns of light streaming into the sky above the town of Sigulda in Latvia at the end of last month.

Taken by designer Aigar Truhins with a standard digital camera, the photographs have prompted excited online discussions among amateur astronomists all over the internet.

'My son exclaimed, 'The aliens are coming!'' Truhins was quoted as saying.

'It certainly looked that way,' he added.

But experts are agreed there may be a more prosaic explanation - ice crystals in the air.

The air above the town was notably cold and filled with suspended ice crystals.

It is believed that the columns were formed by those reflecting light from the bright streetlamps and other lights on the ground - beaming it back downwards again.

Skies all over Europe have been filled with such natural phenomena during the cold snap of recent weeks.

Scientists at the website spaceweather.com said: 'Truhin’s pillars are not the ordinary kind. Even eading experts in atmospheric optics can’t quite figure them out

'These pillars are mysterious. They have unexplained curved tops and even curved arcs coming from their base.

'Arcs in rare displays like these could be from column crystals to give parts of tangent arcs, others could be the enigmatic Moilanan arc or even the recently discovered reflected Parry arc.

'We do not know – so take more photos on cold nights!'

Friday, February 16, 2007

Latvia: UFO Crashes Through Ice in Pond!

UFO In Pond - Latvia (D Res) 2-4-07
LATVIA: Falling of Celestial Object and Alleged UFO Sightings in Karki

By Piotr Cielebiaœ
“NOL – the Eastern European UFO Journal”
2-16-07


On 4th February a unidentified object but probably a meteorite fell into the pond in northern Latvia punching a hole in the ice. On the same night locals claims to see UFO [what can be explained by light phenomena accompanying the meteorite]. Anyway - alleged light manifestations took place a week later in the pond area... some claims to see beams of light. The case under investigation of Latvian groups.
     On 4th February at about 10 pm. an unidentified object [probably a meteorite] fell down to a pond located in a village in the northern part of Latvia punching a hole in the ice crust. This event coincided with alleged UFO sightings reported in the area.

First information on the event emerged on 13th February in "Degpunkta" broadcast of Latvian National Television where the incident was reported as an event from 12th February. In fact it took place a week before.

An unknown celestial object fell to the pond in Karki [Karkyu] village on 4th February 2007 at about 10 pm. Despite low temperatures the hole allegedly remained unfrozen for two subsequent days.

The place of the incident was visited by Radiating Control Service and a commission from Latvian Ministry of Environment. Unfortunately members of both commissions weren't able to give a reasonable explanation. Andriejs Salmins - head of the public service of Radiating Control stated that first measurements at the place of incident didn't reveal anything unusual but subsequent procedures conducted at the edge of the aperture revealed strongly raised radioactive background - Latvian sources said.

UFO In Pond - Latvia (A Res) 2-4-07
UFO In Pond - Latvia (B Res) 2-4-07

But it wasn't the end of revelations.

As it turned out, repeated measurements conducted just after the aforementioned ones, didn't found any anomalies.

Moreover, in the day of incident a witness living 2.5 km from Karki observed a strange, metallic object in a form of half-moon encircled with a ring. Other witness stated that a "column of light" was observed in the pond area on 13th February*.

"NECTON LABORATORY" group is presently involved in the investigation of the case. The pond was closed from visitors by its owner. The secret of that night [or a part of it] remained hidden under 3 m. deep under the ice surface.According to first opinions given by the group, presence of radioactive pollution may refer to a meteoric origin of the object [it would be the 5th one meteorite found on Latvian territory] but other possibilities [for example space junk] hasn't been excluded.

Further investigation will also prove whether alleged UFO sightings that took were reported by locals have something in common with the falling of the object or if two distinct phenomena coincided.

* Other sources mention that amongst the witnesses was a local girl and also suggest that more local inhabitants might witness the event. "6 beams of light" in the pond area are also mentioned. Information about alleged UFO sighting that might coincide with falling of the object need verification.

UFO In Pond - Latvia (C Res) 2-4-07
UFO In Pond - Latvia (E) 2-4-07

* Source: Vlad Guscha – “NECTON Laboratory” [Pribaltika Kosmopoisk], LATVIA.

See Also:

LATVIA: UFO Photographed Over Riga

POLAND: UFO Photographed In Tarnów Area

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